Re:The State of MySQL: The Elephant in the Room
by ocskills on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @02:50PM
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Of note, Sun ironically performed a benchmark between PostgreSQL and Oracle. The results were that PostgreSQL performed very closely to Oracle under several scenarios.
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/postgresql-publish...
It's not a direct comparison between MySQL, but Oracle is highly regarded from a performance standpoint.
Re:The State of MySQL: The Elephant in the Room
by newt0311 on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @02:35PM
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Benchmarks between DBs are pretty rare because they are so difficult to control for. The configurations make a big difference. One set of benchmarks is here: http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6 but thats in 2006. Also, MySQL has known fatal bugs in the production release so mysql isn't exactly a safe choice.
Re:The State of MySQL: The Elephant in the Room
by staunch on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @12:59AM
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> Also, MySQL has known fatal bugs in the production release so mysql isn't exactly a safe choice.
Outright FUD.
Re:The State of MySQL: The Elephant in the Room
by newt0311 on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @01:52AM
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Not quite:
MySQL GA release with known crashing bugs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=380092
Comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL releases: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381899
I personally use MySQL and I think it's an OK database (performance and installation wise) and I think it's a bit risky to jump on PostgreSQL when most others use MySQL (e.g. Flickr, Facebook, Yahoo, Google just to name a few).